iPod Playlists
These are playlists I've made for my iPod. There are lots of songs that could fit into these catagories, but these were built out of music in my personal collection. Click on the following titles to go directly to a list.
96 Organs (songs with great organ parts)
Ain’t That A Great Song (it is, ain’t it)
All In The Family
Bookends (great first and last album songs)
Bug Songs
By The Numbers
Cover Versions that equal or surpass the orginals
Fictional literary characters
Great Album Openers
Great Album Closers
Great Singles - Songs Not On Albums
Joe Mama
Monuments
More Songs About Food & Building
Songs from Philip K. Dick books (or inspired by them)
Play that funky music (but not Funky Drummer)
Precious Minerals & Metals
Royalty and other people in charge
Self-referencial Songs that Refer to Themselves
Serial Killers & Mass Murderers
Six of the Seven Deadly Sins and their dog
Songs About How The Music Industry Sucks
Songs With The Same Title As Another Famous Song
These Are The Days of Our Lives
Songs With Titles That Are Anagrams
Songs With Titles Never Mentioned In The Lyrics
Zeuhl Barnstormers:
Bands Named After Songs By Other Bands
Dogs
Odd Rock Song Subject Matter
Songs Named After Books
The Mighty 'Tron
Themes for Great Cities
Fox In Socks
Time
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96 Organs (songs with great organ parts):
| Farfisa Beat | Squeeze |
| Neon Shuffle | XTC |
| Walking on the Sun | Smashmouth |
| Pump It Up | Elvis Costello |
| Strange Boutique | The Monochrome Set |
| Music To Watch Girls By | The James Taylor Quartet |
| Rock Lobster | B52s |
| Lenox Avenue Blues | Fats Waller |
| Suburban Rhonda | Magazine |
Ain’t That A Great Song (it is, ain’t it):
| Ain’t That A Kick In The Head | Dean Martin |
| Ain’t That A Groove | James Brown |
| Ain’t That A Bitch | Johnny “Guitar” Watson |
| Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens | Louis Jordan |
| Ain’t No Water In The Well | Hüsker Dü |
| Ain’t No Sunshine | Bill Withers |
| Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City | Cafe Jacques |
| Ain’t But The One Way | Julian Cope |
| Ain’t No Tellin’ | Jimi Hendrix |
| Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love | Moog Cookbook |
All In The Family:
| Grandfather’s House | John Cale & Brian Eno |
| Grandma’s Hands | Bill Withers |
| I Wish Marvin Gaye’s Father Had Killed Me Instead | The Chrysanthemums |
| Mother Whale Eyeless | Brian Eno |
| Sister Europe | Psychedelic Furs |
| Brother | Bill Frisell |
| Uncle Remus | Frank Zappa |
| A Real Mother For Ya | Johnny “Guitar” Watson |
| Fade Sister Cool | Lida Husik |
| Mother Upduff | Can |
Bookends (great first and last album songs):
| Album | Band | Opener | Closer |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACK SEA | XTC | Respectable Street | Travels In Nihilon |
| SCARY MONSTERS | David Bowie | It’s No Game | It’s No Game (reprise) |
| ENTERTAINMENT! | Gang Of Four | Ether | Anthrax |
| ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? | Jim Hendrix | Purple Haze | Are You Experienced? |
| ARE WE NOT MEN?... | Devo | Uncontrollable Urge | Shrivel Up |
| CHEAP TRICK | Cheap Trick | Hot Love | Oh Caroline |
| CALIFORNIA | Mr. Bungle | Sweet Charity | Goodbye Sober Day |
Bug Songs:
| Ant Man Bee | Captain Beefheart |
| Antsong | Von Zamla |
| Bee Dream | Peter Blegvad |
| Dragonflies | Red House Painters |
| Flight Of The Bumble Roach | Residents |
| Fly On The Wall | XTC |
| Inside The Termite Mound | Killing Joke |
| Cricket In The Flats | Dave Thomas & The Pedestrians |
| Moth | Download |
| Beetles | Aphex Twin |
By The Numbers:
| #1 Hit Song | Minutemen |
| 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton | Prince |
| Number Three | They Might Be Giants |
| Four Enclosed Walls | P.I.L. |
| 5 O’Clock World | Julian Cope |
| #6 | Jackofficers |
| 7 Screaming Diz-Busters | Blue Öyster Cult |
| 8 Miles High | Hüsker Dü |
| #9 Dream | John Lennon |
| Ten Feet Tall | XTC |
| 11 MPH | Was (Not Was) |
| 12 O’Clock July | The Mussies |
| 13th Floor Vendetta | The Damned |
| Fourteen Black Paintings | Peter Gabriel |
| 15th | Wire |
| 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six | Tom Waits |
| Seventeen | Sex Pistols |
| Page 18 | Fantômas |
| 19th Nervous Breakdown | Nash The Slash |
| 20th Century Dream | David Sylvian/Robert Fripp |
| 21st Century Schizoid Man | King Crimson |
| 22 Going On 23 | Butthole Surfers |
| Strawberry Letter #23 | Brothers Johnson |
| 24 Track Loop | This Heat |
| 25 O’Clock | The Dukes of Stratosphere |
Cover Versions that equal or surpass the orginals
| song | cover version | original version |
|---|---|---|
| Witchita Lineman | Urge Overkill | Glen Campbell |
| I Put A Spell On You | Arthur Brown | “Screaming” Jay Hawkins |
| It’s Gonna Take Some Time | Dishwalla | The Carpenters |
| Ashes To Ashes | lb | David Bowie |
| Mighty Love | Todd Rundgren | The Spinners |
| One | Aimee Mann | Three Dog Night |
| Outdoor Miner | Transformer | Wire |
| Personal Jesus | Johnny Cash | Depeche Mode |
| Red | Niacin | King Crimson |
| She Don’t Use Jelly | Ben Folds Five | THe Flaming Lips |
| Shipbulding | Robert Wyatt | Elvis Costello |
| Dear God | Sarah McLaghlin | XTC |
| Ticket To Ride | The Carpenters | The Beatles |
| Too Much Of Nothing | Peter Paul & Mary | Bob Dylan |
| David Watts | The Jam | The Kinks |
| I’m A Believer | Robert Wyatt | The Monkees |
| Young Lust | Penal Colony | Pink Floyd |
| Freebird | Cat Power | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction | DEVO | The Rolling Stones |
Fictional literary characters:
| Advent of Panurge | Gentle Giant |
| Alice | Tom Waits |
| Beelzebub | Bill Bruford |
| Brainiac’s Daughter | Dukes of Stratosphear |
| Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde | The Damned |
| Frankenstein | Aimee Mann |
| Icarus | Tony Levin |
| Jacob Marley’s Chain | Aimee Mann |
| Jason and the Argonauts | XTC |
| Dig Ophelia | Rasputina |
Great Album Openers:
| Great Deceiver | King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black |
| Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band | The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band |
| Even Less | Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream |
| Propaganda | Sparks - Propaganda |
| Service With A Smile | Happy The Man - Crafty Hands |
| That’s When I Reach For My Revolver | Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches |
| The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway | Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway |
| Theme For Great Cities | Simple Minds - Sister Feelings Call |
| Paradigm Shift | Liquid Tension Experiment - LTE |
| Lifeboat Party | Kid Creole - Doppelganger |
| Elephant Talk | King Crimson - Discipline |
Great Album Closers:
| Supper’s Ready | Genesis - Foxtrot |
| Do You Feel Like We Do? | Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! |
| Road To Nowhere | Talking Heads - Little Creatures |
| Tomorrow Never Knows | The Beatles - Revolver |
| That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate | Mission Of Burma - Vs. |
| Drugs | Talking Heads - Fear of Music |
| Stranger In Your Soul | Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever |
Great Singles - Songs Not On Albums:
| Academy Fight Song | Mission Of Burma |
| Wheel Me Out | Was (Not Was) |
| I Feel Fine | The Beatles |
| Something Goes Wrong Again | Buzzcocks |
| Life Begins At The Hop | XTC |
| See Emily Play | Pink Floyd |
| Beat Surrender | The Jam |
| Reward | The Teardrop Explodes |
| Don’t Want To Be Your Shadow | Psychedelic Furs |
| Old Brown Shoe | The Beatles |
Joe Mama:
| Hey Joe | The Leaves |
| Say It’s Alright, Joe | Genesis |
| Standing In For Joe | XTC |
| Joe The Lion | David Bowie |
| Run Joe | Louis Jordan |
| Joe Public | The Rutles |
| Not Your Average Joe | Something Fierce |
| Joe Porterhouse | Elvis Costello |
| Run Joe | Chuck Brown |
| Big Joe & Phantom 309 | Tom Waits |
| Table Top Joe | Tom Waits |
| Bahama Joe | Louis Jordan |
| Uncle Joe | Red House Painters |
| Goodbye Joe | The Monochrome Set |
Monuments:
| Statue Of Liberty | XTC |
| Hoover Dam | Sugar |
| Eiffel Tower High | Hüsker Dü |
| Towers of London | XTC |
More Songs About Food & Building:
| St. Alphonzo’s Pancake Breakfast | Frank Zappa |
| Building A Mystery | Sarah McLaghlin |
| Sandwiches of You | Godley & Creme |
| Kisses Sweeter Than Wine | Bongwater |
| Beans And Cornbread | Louis Jordan |
| Who Stole The Kishka? | Brave Combo |
| Crawfish | Drain |
| Salt Peanuts | Dizzy Gillespie |
| Chocolate Milk Shake | Barry Adamson |
Songs from Philip K. Dick books (or inspired by them):
| The Joe Chip Song | Richard Pinhas |
| More Human Than Human | White Zombie |
| I Dream Of Wires | Gary Numan |
| Stereosanctity | Sonic Youth |
| UBIK | Richard Pinhas |
| Schizophenia | Sonic Youth |
Play that funky music (but not Funky Drummer):
| Rhymin’ On The Funk | Digital Underground |
| Punk To Funk | Fatboy Slim |
| Funk In A Deep Freeze | Zorn/ Lewis / Frisell |
| Funk Gets Stronger | Funkadelic |
| Dervish Funk | Eat Static |
| Get Funked | Richard Leo Johnson |
| Rockhard In A Funky Place | Prince |
| P-Funk Want’s To Get Funked Up | Parliament |
| Space Funk With Springs | Nurse With Wound |
| Hog Funk | Niacin |
Precious Minerals & Metals:
| Diamond | Golden Palominos |
| Amythest Deceivers | Coil |
| Ruby / The Rose Sob | John Greaves |
| Shine On You Crazy Diamond | Pink Floyd |
| Gold Mine | Take 6 |
| Silver | Juno Reactor |
| Mica | Mission Of Burma |
| We Stand In Saphire Silence | Tony Levin |
| Onyx | Ruins |
| Obsidian | Meshuggah |
Royalty and other people in charge:
| Duke Of Orchestral Prunes | Frank Zappa |
| The Empress and the Ukraine King | Can |
| The Tooth Fairy and the Princess | Hüsker Dü |
| My Name Is Prince | Prince |
| Fort Knox, King Solomon | Bob Mould |
| King Midas In Reverse | The Posies |
| The Queen Of Eyes | Soft Boys |
| Lady Of The Lake | Starcastle |
| The King Crimson Barber Shop | King Crimson |
| Moribund the Burgermeister | Peter Gabriel |
Self-referencial Songs that Refer to Themselves:
| The Only Song | Blegvad/Greaves |
| The B-Side | Blotto |
| Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With | King Crimson |
| This Is Pop | XTC |
| Number Three | They Might Be Giants |
| Only A Northern Song | The Beatles |
Serial Killers & Mass Murderers:
| song | band | murderer |
|---|---|---|
| The Ballad Of TV Violence | Cheap Trick | Richard Speck |
| Reynard The Fox | Julian Cope | unknown |
| Broadway Melody of 1974 | Genesis | Caryll Chessman |
| Clownmaster | Sugar | Ed Gein |
| Mother | Police | Norman Bates (Ed Gein) |
| Texas Chainsaw Massacre | The Ramones | Leatherface (Ed Gein) |
| Jack The Ripper | Univers Zero | Sir William Gull (oh, what a give-away!) |
Six of the Seven Deadly Sins and their dog:
| Lust For Life | Iggy Pop |
| Age Of Greed | Killing Joke |
| Jealousy | Esquival |
| Swallow My Pride | Ramones |
| Anger is Holy | Mark Stewart |
| Lazy Bird | John Coltrane |
| And Your Dog Can Sing | The Chrysanthemums |
Songs About How The Music Industry Sucks:
| Funk Pop A Roll | XTC |
| Everybody Is A Fucking Liar | The Posies |
| Hit Factory / Business Is Business | Godley & Creme |
| EMI | Sex Pistols |
| Energy Vampires | Peter Hammil |
| I Die: You Die | Gary Numan |
| Starfuckers, Inc. | Nine Inch Nails |
| Bill Drummond Said | Julian Cope |
| Hit Squad | The Bevis Frond |
Songs With The Same Title As Another Famous Song:
| Brazil | Wire | not Xaivier Cugat |
| Changes | Sugar | not David Bowie |
| Great Pretender | Eno | not The Platters |
| I Should Have Known Better | Wire | not The Beatles |
| Oh Marie | Sheryl Crow | not Louis Prima |
| Paper Doll | PM Dawn | not Lena Horne et al |
| Passing Strangers | Ultravox | not Sarah Vaughan |
| The Sound Of Music | Joy Division | not Julie Andrews |
| That’s Entertainment | The Jam | not Tony Bennett et al |
| What’s Going On | Hüsker Dü | not Marvin Gaye |
These Are The Days of Our Lives:
| Sunday Morning | Madness |
| Stormy Monday | Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers |
| Tuesday Afternoon | Neal Morse |
| Wednesday Week | Elvis Costello |
| Thursday Afternoon | Rollins Band |
| Friday The 13th | Thelonious Monk |
| Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting | Elton John |
| Spring 1980 | Kit Watkins |
| Someone Somwhere (In Summertime) | Simple Minds |
| Autumn Comes Around | Andy Partridge |
| A Hazy Shade Of Winter | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Fall Of Another Year | Can |
Songs With Titles That Are Anagrams:
| Wax The Nip | “Aphex Twin” | Aphex Twin |
| King’s Lead Hat | “Talking Heads” | Brian Eno |
| Thela Hun Ginjeet | “Heat in the Jungle” | King Crimson |
| Aculard | “Dracula” | Gentle Giant |
| Kew.Rhone. | “Knowhere” | John Greaves |
| Acrid Avid Jam Shred | “Richard David James” | Aphex Twin |
Songs With Titles Never Mentioned In The Lyrics:
| Map Ref. 41°N 93°W | Wire |
| Hocus Pocus | Focus |
| Can Utility & The Coast Liners | Genesis |
| For Pete’s Sake | The Monkees |
| Mandocello | Cheap Trick |
| Synesthesia | Porcupine Tree |
| I.G.Y. (Intergalactic Year) | Donald Fagen |
| Cassandra Geminni (or any of their songs for that matter) | The Mars Volta |
Zeuhl Barnstormers:
| Burnng Stone | Ruins |
| Da Futura | Magma |
| Rock & Young | Happy Family |
| Holy Roller | Bondage Fruit |
| Booldemug | Weidorje |
| Zasca Coska | Ruins |
| Kaiten (Ningen Gyorai) | Happy Family |
| Kinzolku No Taiji | Bondage Fruit |
| Kolinda | Weidorje |
Bands Named After Songs By Other Bands:
| song/band | band |
|---|---|
| Happy The Man | Genesis |
| Happy Family | King Crimson |
| Fates Warning | Iron Maiden |
| Negativland | Neu! |
| Hunters and Collectors | Can |
| Death Cab For Cutie | Bonzo Dog Band |
| Motorhead | Hawkwind |
| Sisters of Mercy | Leonard Cohen |
| Mister Mister | T-Rex |
| Radiohead | Talking Heads |
| Blonde Redhead | DNA |
| Rolling Stone | Muddy Waters |
| Shakepeare's Sister | The Smiths |
| No Man's Land | Syd Barrett |
Dogs
| Dog | Hunters & Collectors |
| Barking Dogs | Butthole Surfers |
| Dog's Life | Gentle Giant |
| Santa Dog | The Residents |
| Black Dog | Led Zepplin |
| Double 'O' Guage Dogs | The Chrysanthemums |
| Rain Dogs | Tom Waits |
| Evelyn, A Modified Dog | Frank Zappa |
| Youth Culture Killed My Dog | They Might Be Giants |
| Dog One | Tony Levin Band |
Odd Rock Song Subject Matter
| Song | Band | and the song is about... |
|---|---|---|
| The Red And The Black | Blue Oyster Cult | The Royal Canadian Mounted Police |
| South Side Of The Sky | Yes | Freezing to death in Antarctica |
| The Great Debate | DreamTheater | Stem cell research |
| James K. Polk | They Might Be Giants | The 11th President of the United States |
| Ice Cream For Crow | Captain Beefheart | The government giving surplus cheese to low income families. |
| Outdoor Miner | Wire | A bug called the Serpentine Miner. |
| 11 MPH | Was (Not Was) | JFK assassination |
| Lightbulb Sun | Porcupine Tree | A boy missing school because he's sick. |
| Enola Gay | OMD | The plane that dropped the first atomic bomb. |
| In Every Dream Home A Heartache | Roxy Music | A blow-up doll. |
| My Tupla | Magazine | Tupla is a Tibetian word describing an imaginary person forced into being by willpower. |
| Airbag | Radiohead | A song about automobile safety devices. |
Songs Named After Books
| Song | Band | from the book by |
|---|---|---|
| Wuthering Heights | Kate Bush | Charlotte Bronte |
| Gravity's Rainbow | Laurie Anderson | Thomas Pynchon |
| Travels In Nihilon | XTC | Alan Sillitoe |
| Anthem | Rush | Ayn Rand |
| Ubik | Richard Pinhas | Philip K. Dick |
| Forbidden Colors | David Sylvian & Ryuichi Sakamoto | Yukio Mishima |
The Mighty 'Tron (Great Mellotron Songs)
| Watcher of the Skies | Genesis |
| Shadow Self | Kevin Gilbert |
| Deliver Us From The Elements | XTC |
| The Wall Street Shuffle | 10cc |
| Epitaph | King Crimson |
| When I Walk Through The Land Of Fear | Julian Cope |
| The Mole From The Ministry | The Dukes of Stratosphere |
| Sea Song | Robert Wyatt |
| To Rid The Disease | Opeth |
| Changes | The Zombies |
| Shadow of the Hierophant | Steve Hackett |
| Exit Music (For A Film) | Radiohead |
Themes for Great Cities
| Liepzig | Thomas Dolby |
| Vienna | Ultravox |
| Cleveland Rocks | Ian Hunter |
| Omaha | Moby Grape |
Fox In Socks
| Reynard the Fox | Julian Cope |
| Johnny the Fox | Thin Lizzy |
| Brian the Fox | Robert Wyatt |
| Find the Fox | XTC |
| The Fox | Pete Seeger |
| Foxey Lady | Jimi Hendrix |
| Fox on the Run | The Sweet |
| Europe After The Rain | John Foxx |
Time
| Click "Time" in iTunes and make series of 60 minute playlists with songs in sequencial order based on their length. The first list will have a lot of songs.... |